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Page 153
... ascertained with any degree of certainty that they were suns , resembling in magnitude and brilliancy our Sun. little was known of those orbs until within the past hundred years , when the exploration of the heavens by the aid of ...
... ascertained with any degree of certainty that they were suns , resembling in magnitude and brilliancy our Sun. little was known of those orbs until within the past hundred years , when the exploration of the heavens by the aid of ...
Page 164
... ascertained that the distance of the Sun from the Earth , which at different periods was surmised to be ten , twenty , and forty millions of miles , was much greater than had been previously estimated . Later calculations determined it ...
... ascertained that the distance of the Sun from the Earth , which at different periods was surmised to be ten , twenty , and forty millions of miles , was much greater than had been previously estimated . Later calculations determined it ...
Page 224
... ascertained . Other elliptical nebulæ are found in different regions of the heavens . In Ursa Major there is an oval nebula resembling that of Andromeda , but on a much smaller scale . It possesses a nucleus , and on the photographic ...
... ascertained . Other elliptical nebulæ are found in different regions of the heavens . In Ursa Major there is an oval nebula resembling that of Andromeda , but on a much smaller scale . It possesses a nucleus , and on the photographic ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 45 |
MILTONS ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
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